All the June gloom has made me a little stir crazy…and when I get stir crazy I usually get to vignetting. Much to the Boy’s frustration.

I’ve got a lot of stuff and I like to move it around.

Also, I wanted to incorporate some of the new thrifty things I found to see if they fit in the house or if they need to get on the Etsy train.

Below is the tension shelf unit in the den before.

And here it is AFTER the vignette storm.

So, why do I crop the tension shelves so close and always justify to the right?

Oh, because of this big hole.

Shizzz. We gotta fix that.

Maybe you noticed there was a lovely new very white addition to the den…yes, I can’t deny it. It’s a new (old) couch.

A few months ago my friend and mid century partner in crime Maya emailed me this phone pic of a sofa that was going to be tossed out. I loved the lines and the tufted detail, but the upholstery was being held together by duct tape and springs were popping out of the seat.

But the frame was so RAD.

I was owed a sofa by a friendly dealer who had acquired a bunch of my vintage treasures in a bartering deal. So we emailed the pic to him and he went and saved the sofa from being garbage. It was taken to his upholsterer and redone in a very high end white vinyl. Its soft, durable, and wipes clean with a sponge!

I love it. I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out, and I’m glad we saved a really great sofa from being trash.

It really lightens up the dark and dreary den and is bigger than the EQ3 sofa which turned out to be too dark and too small for two folks that like to stretch out and watch TV.

Iggy likes to hang out it as well.

All in all it cost me many many pieces of vintage furniture / lighting and $52 in fabric that was not covered in the deal. I removed some clutter that didn’t fit in the house and saved a sofa I really love in return.

Sweet!